Raking in Pharma Dough while Pushing Opponents Out of the Way (literally)

The American Thinker ^ | January 13, 2010 | Carol Brown

[Scanian]

Following the MA Senate debate on Monday, Martha Coakley was off to Washington DC where a big fundraiser was being held for her. Per the Washington Examiner,

"17 of the 22 names on the host committee are federally registered lobbyists. Fifteen of those 17 have big health care clients such as Pfizer, Merck, Amgen, Sanofi-Aventis, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Astra-Zeneca, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana, HealthSouth, and United Health among many others. In addition, among the other five hosts there are direction connections via marriage and/or direct professional ties to the health care industry."

After the fundraising event, Coakley took two questions from reporters. But she refused to answer any questions from John McCormack of The Weekly Standard. And Mr. McCormack had excellent questions. He wanted to follow up on a remark Coakley made during the debate when she claimed there are no terrorists in Afghanistan. Mr. McCormack continued to walk with her, asking why health care lobbyists were supporting her fundraiser. Coakley refused to answer.

[Peet]

This vile woman (Coakley) got the endorsement of my local newspaper in a long editorial surrounded by clearly-biased AP “stories.”

The editor of the aforementioned newspaper claims to be “balanced”. Ha!

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Democrats the new NAZI party. I wonder how they can say they are the “working mans party” when they spend their time hanging with Corporate America while shoving working reporters down? Oh I know, Corporate America hires guys like Dan Rather to cover the news. Lets all goose step together, shall we?